Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

original process

A process issued at the beginning of a judicial proceeding. "Original process is any writ or notice by which a defendant is called upon to appear and answer the plaintiff's declaration. The commencement of the suit at common law was formerly by original writ. Judicial process was by summons, attachment, arrest and outlawry." Benjamin J. Shipman, Handbook of Common-Law Pleading § 3, at 17 (Henry Winthrop Ballantine ed., 3d ed. 1923).